Neanderthals in the Levant : behavioral organization and the beginnings of human modernity /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 320 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	New approaches to anthropological archaeology New approaches to anthropological archaeology.
Subject:	Neanderthals -- Middle East. Mousterian culture -- Middle East. Human evolution. Social evolution. Antiquities. Human evolution. Mousterian culture. Neanderthals. Social evolution. Tor Faraj Cave (Jordan) Middle East -- Antiquities. Jordan -- Tor Faraj Cave. Middle East. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280624

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Other authors / contributors:	Henry, Donald O.
ISBN:	9781441167194 1441167196 0826458033 9780826458032 6612310103 9786612310102
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-312) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	The volume traces the controversy that revolves around the bio-cultural relationships of Archaic (Neanderthal) and Modern humans at global and regional, Levantine scales. The focus of the book is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organiz.
Other form:	Print version: Neanderthals in the Levant. London ; New York : Continuum, 2003 0826458033 9780826458032

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION:
The emergence of modern humans: issues and debates ; The Levant and the modern human debate / Donald O. Henry
CASE STUDY:
A case study from Southern Jordan: Tor Faraj ; Human behavior and the stone tools from Tor Foraj / Donald O. Henry
Small lithic debris analysis / Teresa L. Armagan
Into the mind of the maker: refitting study and technological reconstructions / Yu E. Demidenko, V.I. Usik
Middle paleolithic plant exploitation: the microbotanical evidence / Arlene Miller Rosen
Formation processes and paleosurface identification / Harold J. Hietala
Site structure and material patterning in space on the Tor Faraj living floors / Harold J. Hietala
SUMMARY:
Behavioral organization at Tor Faraj / Donald O. Henry
APPENDIX A: Alphabetical listing of attribute definitions used for the Tor Faraj small lithic debris study / Teresa L. Armagan
APPENDIX B: Small lithic debris analysis results tables / Teresa L. Armagan
APPENDIX C: Cross-cultural data for hearths in rockshelters / Donald O. Henry
APPENDIX D: Analysis of sediments for zinc and phosphate ions / Thomas M. Harris.

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